Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-08-05
GENERAL NOTES.

! THE annual encampment of Dakota
militia will be held at Huron Sept. to 6
The State Republican Convention OF
| Massachusetts will be held at fremont
| Temple, Boston, Sept. IS.
| The aggregate collections of internal
revenue In Illiaois for the last fiscal year
with SIS, ,101, ,203. Vermont had the least
S3O,1l9.
j. NJ. Comfy, editor and proprietor of
the Commercial of Toledo, Ohio, expired
at 10 O'Clock Tuesday night.
| JOHN TAYLOR, president of the Mormon
| Church, died at Salt Lake City Monday
! evening. The remains will be inferred
next Friday.
EVERYTHING is reported quiet in the
| coke region, and the Pinkerton men Will
be withdrawn in few days. IL is feared
that the scarcity of cars Will shut down
! some of the ovens.
| AN assignment was made Monday
morning by Nohl Brothers, dealers in
| hardware and groceries at Ripon, Wis.
! They owe about $4,000. Chicago firms
are interested.
A FIRE at Georgetown, KY, destroyed
eleven buildings in the principal business
| block of the town, including the Office of
the Times newspaper. Total loss estim-
ated at 100000.
AT Sante Fe, New Mexico, Al Houck,
prescription clerk In drug store, was
killed last evening by the accidental ex-
! ploslOL of soda water generator.
| BOYS caused a fire at Clinton, Iowa,
Wednesday, which destroyed the Baptist
Church, four dwellings, and number of
! barns. Six dwellings were badly dam
| aged.
A DELEGATION of Occur de Alene Indians
| from Idaho, with Chief Seltico at their
head, waited on the President Monday
and asked his cooperation in securing
their treaty rights.
Bishop LoUGHLIN, of Brooklyn, has
been summoned to Rome to ex plain why
he disobeyed papal mandate to rein
state Father Crimmins, WiIliamsburgh
priest whom he removed from his pastor
ate several years ago.
The Columbian of Philadelphia, whose
checks upon the Farmers and Mechanics
National bank of that city were thrown
out Friday, closed its doors. An assign
ment has been made for the benefit of
the creditors. The failure, which grows
out of the banks relations to Ives, the
Wall street speculator, is believed to be d
bad one.
The Twelfth United States Infantry
leaves Buffalo for Duluth Tuesday night.
The officers and their wives will 20 On
the propeller In !ia, and the non-commis-
stoned officers aud men with the traps
will go on the propeller Vanderbilt.
THE Brotherhood of Telegraphers has
offered $3,000,000 for the Baltimore d
Ohio telegraph system. They propose to
pay 100000 cash and the balance at the
end of six months. Their leaders have no
doubt of their ability to furnish the
money.
SENATOR LELAND STANFORD owned up to
the Pacific railway investigating com
mission at San Francisco that individual
holdings in the Southern Pacific amount
ed to $32 100000. And yet the same
Stanford has the infinite gail to demand
that he and his associates shall not be
compelled 10 pay their debts to the gov
ernment. For sublime assurance, the
Pacific railroad plutOcrats beat the world
The leading representatives of the New
York underwriting interests declare that
the last six months have b8en more dis
astrous to the fire insurance com panies
than any like period in their history, ex-
cept those embracing the great Chicago
and Boston fires. The bulk of the recent
losses has been in and about New York.
| The increase in the number of fires is
attributed by the insurance men to incen-
| diarism, the alarming prevalence of which
they ascribe to the teachings of Herr
Most and other anarchists of that stripe.
Various measures for arresting the evil
are being considered in insurance circles,
the general feeling being that if the pres
ent ratio of losses is lohg maintained rNin
will overtake the underwriting interest of
the country.